Guild Wars 2

I have read so many hate for Revenat this weekend, and I couldn’t really understand why until I saw the builds people were using.

When I started the beta I decided I would try two builds: a known one (Berserker’s) and one made by me. For the one I made, I thought of the revenant as a tanky character but with some power reliability (I wanted to be able to kill mobs if i’m alone and didn’t want to die all the time xD).

With that in mind I searched the equip stat options I was given and I thought Knight’s was the best for what I wanted. I used Knight stats with Rune of the Undead to be able to use both the King Jalis and Mallyx stances. For the weapon, I used hammer with Sigil of Force and Sigil of Bloodlust.

I played a while with this build and I really thought it was quite balanced. Didn’t feel the problems everyone was feeling of low damage and low survivability. In orr, against lvl 80 mobs (3 to 1, being one a veteran), I was able to dispatch them with some ease, using the legendary Dwarf stance and didn’t even get in down state. In silverwastes I was able to tank the Husk champion for two guys and again never completely died (got downed 3 to 4 times). Also tried it in WvW and it was ok xD Against 8 guys (I guess they were 8.. I only saw red around me xD) I got to take 2 guys with me before completely dead (I’m not very pro-efficient in WvW, sorry =s).

Then I tried the Berserker build…. Chaos ensued xD
Yeah damage was ok….. Well for mace and axe at least. But the survival rate….. Died at least 3 to 4 times in orr. Then I was able to see what people were complaining about. I guess “normal” builds just don’t work on Revenant xD.

In the end I only wanted to come back to Knight’s and used that build for the rest of the beta. I was really happy with it and I really hope to be able to use it when HoT comes out. In my experience, Revenant is a really fun class to play and I’m really excited with it (though I confess it still needs some adjusting here and there, like that taunt skill xD).

I’ve been using Knight’s armor too, but with Jalis/Ventari, usually with Staff as my weapon, but swapping to Hammer sometimes to try it out.
I have pretty much the same sort of experience as you did.
Survivability felt fine.
Damage was fine, though it was annoying sometimes with Vengeful Hammers bugging out occasionally when the hammers hit invisible walls and vanished like the ones around the entrances to the Breach Boss areas, or just walls in general.

It’s all about a mix. Like I went:

Berserker Armor + Hoelbrak Runes
Berserker Hammer + Bloodlust/Fire
Soldier Necklace, Cavalier Earrings, and Assassins Rings.

In total that gave me 2100 Power, 2550 Armor, 40% crit, 204% crit dmg and 17.5k HP which is more than enough to survive anything while still having respectable damage. With Ascended gear that’ll be a bit better (especially Armor) and be slightly more defensive/offensive.

With -60% condi duration Malyx was actually pretty good regardless of not being Condition focused from a defensive perspective (resistance is very strong when not being stripped).